PSYC 4070 Lecture : Final Notes
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Most adults 3 central roles: worker, spouse, parent. Subsistence culture adults work/marry earlier: median age us women"s first marriage was, 20. 6 in 1970, 23. 7 in 1988, 25. 3 in 2003, use median to get rid of extreme measures, serial monogamy: getting married, divorced, and the remarried. Each of us has certain assets to offer to a potential mate: women are more concerned with the job prospects or economic, men are more focused on attractiveness. Intimacy and passion drawn to each other physically and emotionally but no commitment: companionate love: intimacy, no passion, commitment. Middle adulthood decline is gradual people compensate. Heredity, health habits, environmental factors, and diseases influence rate and type of changes. Most middle-aged (and older) adults live high-quality, satisfying lives. Alsop: a dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
